Garment-supporter



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GARMENT SUPPORTER. v No. 521,560. v Patented June 19 1894.

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CHARLES J. WHITE, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

GARMENT-SUPPORTERf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.521,560, dated June 19, 1894. Application filed May 11, 1894. fierialNo. 510,939. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. WHITE, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garment supporters, and thechief object of my improvement is to provide a cheap and efficient wayof lining the inner edge of the supporter with wire.

In the accompanying drawings: Figurel is a side elevation of my garmentsupporter. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of the same on the lineas m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached plan view of the lining wire. Fig.4 is a detached plan view of the blank for the body of my garmentsupporter. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of my garment supporter in asomewhat modified. form, and Figs. 6 and 7 are front and side elevationsrespectively of another style of garment supporter with my liningapplied thereto.

I make the body of my garment supporter of two thicknesses of sheetmetal 8, 8, which pieces may be cut out in a double blank, as shown inFig. 4 and doubled upon itself, or if desired two separate pieces may beplaced together and secured in any proper or ordinary manner. 1 form thelining 9 for the inner edge of the garment supporter loop or eye ofrounded wire which may be bent to the desired form to correspond withthe contour of the loop or eye of the garment supporter, and I prefer tohave said wire lining extend around the entire edge of the opening, asshown in Fig. 1. The wire may be drawn with a thin fin or web 10 alongone side thereof, or it may be struck in suitable dies to compress orcut a little metal from 1ts outer side and flatten the same into-thethin web or fin 10. The lining is secured to the body of the loop byplacing it in proper position with the thin web entering 1n between thetwo thicknesses of metal 8 8 so as to hold the lining in place, and Iprefer to stnke the complete article in dies to compress theouter edgesof the metal and give a neat fin sh to the article. I intend to applythis lining of wire to various forms of garment supporters and buttonloops and the body of the wlre at its junction with the fin or web mayrest closely to the inner edge of the body of the garment supporter atall points, or if desired, certain parts of the wire may stand in alittle from the edge of the body, as shown at 11 in Figs. 1 and 2,whereby the lining of wire not only forms a smooth rounded edge whichwill not cut the garment, but also may thus be enabled to be somewhatelastic at points and form a slight spring, the two thicknesses of metalnot being pinched together so firmly at the points 11, 11 but that theweb may have a slight movement between which enters between the twothicknesses of the metal in the body of the loop, as before described.

In Figs. 6 and 7, the body of the garment supporter or button loop is inlike manner made of two thicknesses 8 and the wire lining 9 for itsinner edge extends wholly around the opening therein, said wire liningbeing secured by means of a web or fin between the two thicknesses, asbefore debutton loop has no spring sides, but in lieu thereof there is aswell or projection, at 14, on one of its broad sides. There are manyother styles of supporters or button loops to which my wire lining isapplicable, but the three forms shown are sufficient to illustrate howmy wire lining may be applied to difierent forms of garment supportersor button loops, so as to protect the entire inner edge of a portionthereof as may be desired, and I therefore consider it unnecessary toillustrate my lining as applied to other forms of loops or supporters.

By my improvement, I form a cheap and efficient mode of lining a sheetmetal garment supporter with a smooth rounded edge, and which may becheaply applied, while at the scribed. This style of garment supporteror composed of two thicknesses of metal and a lining of wire having athin fin or web ex- 15 tending in between said thicknesses for holdingsaid lining in place, and having portions of said lining set in slightlyfrom the inner edge of said body to serve as springs, substantially asdescribed and for the purpose speci- 20 CHARLES J. WH-ITE.

Witnesses:

F. H. ANDREWS, J AMES SHEPARD.

